An Inverse Almost Periodic Problem for a Semilinear Strongly Damped Wave Equation

Abstract: The paper investigates an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear strongly damped wave equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition in Sobolev spaces of bounded (in particular, almost periodic and periodic) functions. In addition to finding a weak solution, we also determine a source coefficient in the right-hand side of the differential equation. To make the problem well-posed, an integral-type overdetermination condition is imposed. After reducing the inverse problem to a direct one, we solve the latter in several steps. First, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to the corresponding initial-boundary value problem on a finite time interval. Next, we show that this solution can be extended in a bounded way to the semiaxis $t\ge 0$. In the following step, we further extend this bounded solution to all $t\in R$. Finally, we establish that if the data of the original problem are almost periodic (or periodic), then the resulting bounded weak solution is itself almost periodic (or periodic).